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Thursday, March 1, 2012

My Nail Polish Addiction

I used to be obsessed with watching Dr. Phil in college. With topics like "Does Mother Know Best?" and "Girly Men", I couldn't get enough of all the crazy that the world had to offer. One of the segments I remember best was called "Is This Normal?" in which people would ask whether diapering their 6-year-old or eating in their sleep was considered normal.

I bring all this up to ask you, Cupcult, is my nail polish collection normal?? I must own at least a few dozen polishes and I change my nail color about twice a week. I've got so many polishes, I actually don't know how to store them anymore. Enter this bowl:

I procured this glass bowl from Gilt Group a couple weeks ago and got the genius idea to use it for nail polish storage. Smart, right?

RIGHT?!?!

Since we're on the topic of nail color, here's what's in my constant rotation lately:

But I want to know: Is this normal?? How many nail polishes do you own? And how do you store them? And how often are you changing your nail color?? I need answers, and I need them now, before it's too late.

28 comments:

Laura ~
said...

Normal. I own probably about 2 dozen kinds of nail polish and change mine on a weekly basis. I keep mine in a big mason jar. It's easy to get carried away with nail polish. First, it dresses up your outfits! Second, it's nice because for the most part nail polishes are cheaper than buying a new shirt so that is my go to when I'm going through buying clothes withdrawls...I can be like "8 dollars for nail polish? Sure."

I'd say normal...I have about a dozen myself and they're all sitting pretty on my vanity sink. The funny part is about 4 of them are varying shades of coral because I couldn't find "the right coral" all pretty in their own way.Now my sister...hers is not normal...she easily could fill a turning rack at a nail salon...easily 100 if not more polishes...

Normal! I have an addiction to Chanel nail polish, which is when you question whether that's normal...$26/for one is just plain stupid, but the colors are so pretty and the nail polish seriously lasts forever, unless you're a maid and then you are sh*t out of luck on any brand.

Check out this girl's closest, which her nail polish collection, I'm actually a TINY bit jealous...

Totally normal, I mean u have seen that I have a small craft store at my house. Also I might just diaper my 6 yr old... That's how fun potty training is :/ and my sister has like 60+ nail polishes and changes them every single day!!!! She does the different ring finger like u do... U trendy girls!

TOTALLY normal. nail polish is probably the only thing that stops me from falling back into biting my nails. i have several dozen of my own - though probably about 30 of them are those little OPI ones that you get in sample packs from sephora, which i like way better because my nails are tiny.

i keep all of my nail polishes in a hanging holder on the back of my door. it's meant to be used for jewellery, i guess? but it works well and it's pretty!

I probably have about 20-30, I guess. I don't even wear most of them. I keep mine on a spice rack on my bathroom wall-- it's a pretty good size rack with two shelves and turns out, spice jars are about the same height as nail polish, so they fit really well. I like your bowl idea too. I would like to change my nails twice a week, but I do a lot with my hands in my free time and painting my nails gets in the way. I paint mine when the old polish has been worn away by the elements, haha.

That's not bad at all! I have almost 200 polishes and store them in small tupperware containers. Here's a pic: http://organizeddanie.tumblr.com/post/12687113494/nail-polish-collection-top-shelf-bottom-shelf

You know the big shoe boxes, the wide ones that hold boots? My friend stores her collection in TWO of those: the bottles are lined up perfectly in rows and each box is full... Plus she has another 8 or so bottles left over. My point? You may not be normal but you're closer than some people PLUS you can try that storage technique.

Personally I have about 30 mini bottles and maybe 7 big bottles that I keep with my remover, file, buffer, oil, and cotton squares in a plastic bin. I highly recommend a trip to the Container Store.

I actually think that my roommate may have a collection that rivals yours. While mine is smaller, I keep them in a bowl in my drawer and change my color up at least once a week. My favorite is OPI - You Dont Know Jacques